Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Still the wrong response
The bureaucrat who triggered the false nuke alert in Hawaii has been fired, along with several top officials of the department. According to the latest version of the story, he had a long history of making the SAME mistake.
Again it's the wrong response. If ANY employee can make the same mistake repeatedly on an important decision, your system is fucked. The mistake should trigger a MURPHY TESTING PROCESS which you failed to perform initially.
Emergency management provides a good controlled-variable experiment. In some states the setup still works well. In other states Parkinson has killed it. Meaningful mission gone, agency finds other shit to do. Here in Wash the EAS serves SOLELY to give Good Parent Alerts. Whenever a real parent is determined enough to repossess her kid from state-ordered fostering, we get a quick and clear alert over the entire state, carefully phrased to make the real parent sound like a random stranger. Emergencies like windstorms and firestorms get nothing at all, or at best a minute of garbled incomprehensible noise AFTER THE EVENT IS OVER.
I'm glad to be informed that we were just destroyed by a BEEPBEEPBEEP SSKHFFTPPPWQQQQFTTTKXQSHHHHHKKKKK BEEPBEEPBEEP. I thought it was a windstorm. Stupid me.
Actually the Civil Defense mission was a vicious racket from the start. USA STRONG has always ignored the safety of its people. The purpose of Civil Defense was to keep us vulnerable and fearful of Currently Defined Fake Enemy, not to help us defend ourselves.
Labels: Constants and Variables, defensible spaces
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